2nd International Symposium on Solar Fuels and Solar Cells

The organization committee kindly invites you to participate in the 2nd International Symposium on Solar Fuels and Solar Cells, a post satellite meeting of the 15th International
Photosynthesis Congress, which will be held at Dalian during August 28-31, 2010. Energy has emerged as a major challenge for the global sustainable development in the 21
century and long term afterwards. Development of renewable energy that can replace the fossil fuels is in highly demanding. Solar energy is abundant, clean and renewable, thus considered to be the idealist energy sources for the future. However, powering the planet with solar energy still faces huge challenges ahead. The scope of this symposium mainly focuses on artificial photosynthesis for the solar fuels and the development of novel techniques for the generation of solar electricity, which are the two major research directions in solar energy utilization. The aim of this symposium is to provide a forum for international academics, researchers, scientists, and students to exchange and share their experiences, ideas, and research results in the development of solar fuels and solar cells, discuss recent advances and the scientific challenges encountered for the efficient solar energy conversion and utilization, and identify the future research directions for the development of “Solar Energy Economy”.

Femtosecond Transient Absorption Measurements system Hatteras. Future nanostructures and biological nanosystems will take advantage not only of the small dimensions of the objects but of the specific way of interaction between nano-objects. The interactions of building blocks within these nanosystems will be studied and optimized on the femtosecond time scale - says Sergey Egorov, President and CEO of Del Mar Photonics, Inc. Thus we put a lot of our efforts and resources into the development of new Ultrafast Dynamics Tools such as our Femtosecond Transient Absorption Measurements system Hatteras. Whether you want to create a new photovoltaic system that will efficiently convert photon energy in charge separation, or build a molecular complex that will dump photon energy into local heat to kill cancer cells, or create a new fluorescent probe for FRET microscopy, understanding of internal dynamics on femtosecond time scale is utterly important and requires advanced measurement techniques. Reserve a spot in our Ultrafast Dynamics Tools training workshop in San Diego, California.

Topics of the symposium
Photocatalysis for Solar Fuels
Hydrogen production via photocatalytic water splitting, biomass reforming and industrial waste reforming, photocatalytic reduction of CO2 to chemical fuels by:
Artificial photosynthesis
Homogeneous and heterogeneous photocatalysts
Semiconductor based photocatalysts

Fundamental Understanding of Solar Energy
Conversion Processes and Mechanism
Modeling, simulation and theoretical calculations
Characterization and imaging by fast and ultra-fast transient spectroscopic

Solar Cells for Solar Electricity
Materials, architectures, and processes for low-cost, highefficiency solar cell devices and modules.
Silicon thin film solar cells
Organic solar cells
Novel nanomaterials and nanostructures for solar cells
Dye-sensitized solar cells

Can Li, Professor Licheng Sun, Professor
Chairman of the Symposium Co-Chairman of the Symposium
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics Department of Chemistry
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dalian, China
Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden